Rangel once again proposes a new draft bill (hell no we won't go?)

Seeing as the Pentagon is having trouble meeting their recruitment targets these days, the only reliable way of keeping fresh stocks of army people availible is through some form of a draft. Sure, converting the non-combat elements into fighting units would help in the short-term; but it doesn't solve the underlying problem of sagging recruitment. How about implimenting a draft to fill the lost non-combat posts that would open up with the kind of structual shakeup Mr. Styphon is suggesting?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Conceptually, there isn't anything wrong with a draft. For example, if the existence of the state is threatened, it would be entirely justifiable to suspend civil liberties until the threat can be managed. Simply put, a constitution isn't a suicide pact. If the younger elements of the population must be conscripted in order to keep the state intact, and thus preserve its way of life, then it should be done regardless of whether or not it tramples on anyone's right to serve. To put it another way, what good is a bill of rights and a constitution if there are insufficient means to protect or enforce it?

There's nowhere I can't reach.